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compacflt · 9 months

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your use of names throughout your works is just sooo chef's kiss - I noticed that while you have the internal dialogue of Mav and Ice refer to themself/each other as Maverick/Ice and Mitchell/Kazansky for the majority of your fics, there are instances where they do call each other by their first names even before they 'talk about it'. I was wondering if you had any thoughts about the first time they called each other Pete/Tom? Any preceding events/emotions/conversations? Or did it just slip out?

LMFAO it’s when they first jack each other off LOL LOL

but aside from that the next times they call each other by their first names are: when bradley comes out to them (Pete), and literally 9/11 (Tom).

the whole “when they use names vs navy-issued identities” topic is one of those things I can’t talk about for too long without sounding like im sucking my own dick (bc im very proud of it) so ill just leave it there

#for instance maverick is maverick and Tom is just Tom here #wildly different levels of vulnerability it FEELS like #but yeah they’ll go YEARS between calling each other by their first names #which is why I said in the paragraph above that the implication is Mitchell literally FORGOT Kazansky’s first name #and he’s just trying to make sure he got it right lmfao #’your name is Tom right? ok glad we got that straight’#navy habit! It’s why they’ll never take each others last names!! they have to maintain their brand recognition #this Pete & Tom exchange is the equivalent of ‘i see you’ in avatar (2009)#i see you I love you i know exactly what you’re made of because i am made of it too #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #top gun #edts notes #is it arm’s length or arms’ length?#omfg.

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